Cystoscopy and a Birthday Party

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to blog about the cystoscopy. I've started my new job in medical transcription, and Katie's birthday party was this past Saturday, and one of her counselors from camp kydnie came down and spent the weekend with us (which was GREAT!)

Here's what I wrote at the hospital (on Wednesday 10/8/08):

We got on the road at 10:20... only 5 minutes after we wanted to leave. Unfortunately, about 10 minutes in to the trip we realized we had forgotten blankie and floppy, Katie's beloved baby blanket and stuffed bunny. So, I dropped Steve and Katie off at the hospital and headed back home. I got back to the hospital at about noon and reunited with them in the PACU (pre/post anesthesia care unit.) Dr. Voigt literally followed me in to tell us that his OR schedule is way backed up because a baby was born with his intestines on the outside of his body and he needs to take care of that first. Obviously, we were very understanding.

However, Katie couldn't eat or drink and she got pretty annoyed about that throughout the day. She didn't go into the OR until close to 5pm! The procedure went really well. Dr. Voigt said that her bladder looked better than he expected. He did take 5 small biopsy samples to be sent to pathology. We supposed to call his office if we haven't gotten those results by this Friday (10/17/08.) Katie spent very little time in recovery and we were on our way back home around 7pm. She went right to bed.

Luckily we had asked Grandpa to come and hang out with James until we got home. Since she was originally scheduled to go into the OR at 11am we kind of thought we might have been home by the time James got home from school at 3pm but.. that didn't happen. We even had to ask Grandpa to cook dinner for James.

For the next day she was a little sore when she cathed but by Friday she was completely back to normal.


Here are some pictures from Katie's Birthday Party:

This one is of Katie and one of her counselors from Camp Kydnie, her visit really made our weekend!!Everyone had a great time. At the party everyone tie dyed a t-shirt and a pillow case and decorated a canvas tote bag. The next day Katie, James, her counselor and her cousin/bff dyed all the left over stuff... I'm still washing everything up.

And finally... I dropped off the sample for the more extensive test for me and we should have the results by the end of this week.